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Cross-Compatible Data Ontologies to Create a Smarter Buildings Market
The smarter a building is, the more data it produces, so as smart buildings mature they face an ever-increasing data management problem. The more data a building produces, the more accurate and insightful its smart systems can be, but only if the data can be harnessed, otherwise that growing “data lake” becomes a costly burden. […]

Convergence of Key Ontologies Could Drive the Standardization of Smart Buildings
“The effective harmonization of building data from different systems has long posed a challenge. Recently there has been a big push in the smart buildings market to develop improved frameworks, models and ontologies for smart building data management,” reads our latest research study on the IoT in buildings. “New semantic data models that provide a common […]

How Can the Commercial Real Estate Industry Improve Technology Outcomes?
Is there one simple thing the commercial real estate industry could do to improve technology outcomes? Yes! Break down knowledge silos and share information. That’s why we created the open-source Developers Smart Building Project Canvas with help from Vanti and LMG (lmgiq.com) Watch my presentation at last month’s Smart Building Conference to learn more about […]

Standards Vs Ecosystems: The Battle for Interoperability
Our physical world is being colonized by digital technology that seeks to sense, interpret, interface, and augment the human experience. Across the built environment, connected devices promise to feed advanced AI systems with all manner of data on the real world to bring about advanced automation and actionable insight. However, the sheer scale of the […]

Webinar: The Developers Smart Building Project Canvas
Please join us on Tuesday 8th March at 1700 Paris | 1600 London | 1100 New York | 0800 San Francisco for our 3rd FREE Webinar in the 2022 Smart Buildings Series. We will be joined by Mike Brooman, CEO of Vanti, to discuss The Developers Smart Building Project Canvas and how it can help commercial real […]

How can you Start to Adopt Technology in your Buildings with the Confidence to Succeed?
The technology around smart buildings can often feel alien to even the most experienced property professionals, especially when embarking on first time projects. The desire to create a smart building without understanding what you want the technology to achieve or the practical steps necessary for success, can often lead to problems. How can we give […]

Facebook AI is Helping Robots Understand Buildings & Occupants
Robots can be designed to clean the floor, as long as everything they might encounter in the room has a programmed response. Suddenly introduce an open bottle of juice and the robot is likely to knock it over then smear juice all over the floor, completely unaware that it is making the situation worse. Robots […]

Recording: Catching Up with the Brick Schema for Smart Buildings
Here is the Video Recording from our 1st Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Catching up with the Brick Schema for Smart Buildings. Memoori is joined by Founder Members of the Brick Open Schema Project: Gabe Fierro, University of California, Berkeley, Jason Koh, Mapped Inc & Erik Paulson from JCI. We Discuss the […]